[NTLUG:Discuss] Via Chipset

[Gorwood, Steve]

A couple months ago there was a lot of traffic about how the 2.4 kernal had
data corruption problems on systems using the VIA chipset.  Eventually, they
found that
by disabling DMA they could avoid the problem at the cost of speed.  

Recently, it was announced that a bug had been identified with the VIA KT133
chipset when used with a Soundblaster Live sound card installed that caused
data corruption problems with large file transfers.  What I have NOT heard
is anyone confirming that fixing this newly discovered bug also fixes all
the corruption problems under the 2.4 kernal.

Is it safe to turn DMA back on now that I have a fixed bios?  

Regards,
Steven Gorwood
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